Pincushion Flower Identification “I saw this beautiful flower (above) while visiting my son in Vermont. What is the name of it?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Samantha Bisceglia of Sarasota, Florida.

• Start seeds of spring and summer vegetables: beets, broccoli, chard, carrots, squash, tomato, peppers, watermelon, pumpkins, and others. Use the pots you sterilized for this purpose last month. • ...

Perennial flowers may be expensive but are well worth the investment. Summer perennials come back year after year, and many are low-maintenance, easy-care plants. Moreover, the perennials you'll find ...

Growth habit: A low-growing evergreen perennial, treated as an annual in Florida; forms a rosette of foliage up to 10 inches tall and wide; flower stalks are leafless and grow to 18 inches tall. The ...

We picked the native pincushion cactus because sometimes, if it's warm, they can bloom in February. Hahahaha. Everyone saw the snow yesterday, right?? A few are in bloom but that means we could be ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. Plants in the Protea family are admired as cut ...

“You’re going to get scabies from those things!” my mother used to say when I brought home a thrift store find. Fortunately, you can’t actually contract this rather vile mite from clothing, but a few ...

NOT every garden flower can be a star of the show, in the way that roses and lilies are stars. There have to be some supporting actors in every dramatic production, the reliable performers that ...